SUNDAY, October 23, 1994; Virtual Rodeo

Published: October 23, 1994

When movies and television slam images at viewers constantly and video games provide realistic blood and gore, what is poor rodeo to do? There's only one event at a time and some of the competitors don't even get hurt. One answer: rodeo not as it is but as it could be. The photo above is a computer-manipulated composite of 12 photographs shot on one day at a rodeo in Evergreen, Colo. Calf-roping, bull-riding and bronco-busting are all happening at once, instead of sequentially, as in old-fashioned linear reality.